Quotes About Success

Do you realize that after eminent success in God's work, there is more need for prayer than when we are at the foothills of a struggle for survival? The moments of victory and success are more dangerous than moments of darkness and depression.

Living a full and overflowing life does not rest in bodily health, in circumstances, nor even in seeing God's work succeed, but in the perfect understanding of God, and in the same fellowship and oneness with Him that Jesus Himself enjoyed.

All the great successes of statesmanlike art and clever popular instincts were the result of cool contemplation, long silence and waiting, hard self-control and, above all, a fundamental renunciation of intoxication and and spectacles.

I will either be famous or infamous.

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

But the thing with us was, we didn't really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

I don't think we [ Black Sabbath ] ever got a good review for anything we did. Which is why I never bother with reviews.

And if it wasn't as good as before, what was the point of doing it? There wasn't a point, as far as I was concerned.

Meanwhile, we'd been kicked out of school at fifteen and had worked in factories and slaughtered animals for a living, but then we'd made something of ourselves, even though the whole system was against us. So how upset could we be when clever people said we were no good?

Bands like The Move , Traffic and The Moody Blues were proving that you didn't have to be from Liverpool to be successful.

The music business is like any other business, y'know? When sales are going well, everything's hunky-f**king-dory. But the second something goes wrong, it's all blood and law-suits.

Taking five or ten or fifteen years to make an album, like Guns N' Roses did, is just f**king ridiculous, end of story. By that time, your career's died, been resurrected, and then died again.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

Work hard, think hard, be honest, and spend little - this will "make common gold".

Achieving success, status, and wealth is not a measure of life. Nor is becoming a religious or spiritual paragon of things holy.